Bugfix : Point Of Sale provides the ability to import part list from a workshop estimate.  If you access point of sale to add parts to workshop, either via Workshop F5 = add parts option or F11 = Modify/other and then use F7 to import from an estimate this will not work as you would expect; it does not add parts onto the selected job at all and it generates a spares invoice that refers to the estimate, not the actual job selected and it will order parts and take parts out of stock.  Now fixed.    The more commonly used technique of creating a new job from a estimate did indeed work and still works.  Also the technique of going to Point of Sale directly and picking the workshop job via F10 also worked; but any process where you selected the workshop job to add parts to before you selected the estimate to import parts from would not work correctly.

• Catalogues
• Import DealerNet web suppliers:  KTM and Husaberg.  For KTM this new method is preferred over importing PDF files : as this method gets units prior to 2006 and it also extracts hotspot information. (clickable zones on fiche diagrams)
• View invoice : show related invoices in a hierarchy (i.e. credit notes, order/receive invoices).  Allow user to select related invoice to view invoice information (removed parent/child buttons added in previous version. This UI model is much easier to work with)
• Spares credit note:  on changing customer with F6=Select Customer, do not automatically override discount to offset credit note using customers default discount if the credit note has inherited discounting information from the original invoice.  To change discount, user has to now explicitly select 'F2 discount' option and key in discount offset.

• Catalogues
• Kawasaki import was failing to import some units; i.e. KLX450,  now fixed.
• Suzuki - suzuki parts have trailing 000 on them.  C9 deals with this when you barcode scan part, but fiche function were not properly coping with this. Now fixed
• Spares - F7 Buy/Sell. Users can now browse orders and invoices connected to a given part.  New window allows you to drill down into the invoice, the original order, or access order receive function.  Makes navigating the relationships managed in c9 easier.  Also shows various part numbers that eventually supercede from/to the selected part.
• View Invoice : give user ability to access parent invoice and child invoice. Child invoices are typically credit notes and subsequent invoicing of parts previously ordered. Makes navigating the relationships managed in c9 easier
• Workshop bug : it was possible to pickup a workshop job twice; on different terminals. Modified so when pickup is selected the system explicitly checks that job status has not been changed by another terminal

This version includes database changes and will force you to log all terminals out in order to apply those changes

• Catalog changes
• Added support for Suzuki
• Added ability to do full reimport.
• Added filter options. i.e. only import 2009 units; only import units that contain NINJA in their model name etc
• Track/display year code of unit and notes on parts.  Important for intepreting suzuki diagrams
• Performance/Image Tweaks
• image processing (clipping/resizing/conversion) speed improved dramatically by upto x10(!)
• KTM - improved ability to skip processing of already processed units.
• Viewing diagrams, busy diagrams with lots of hotspots would refresh slowly in c9. Now dramatically improved
• KTM - images are now more space efficient. (smaller and lower grayscale bitdepth)
• Optimize image size; post clipping. I.e. fit post clip image to a 800x800 box, as opposed to fitting to a box and then clipping
• Reimport image : if image already imported and on file and is exactly the same. Use it. Save disk space and save replication bandwidth to c9 online backup service
• Bugfix : Catalogs where same part number appears twice. Usually c9 imports these ok, but sometimes, about one in 100 images, c9 will only import some of the part number references, not all of them. Now fixed
• Spares ordering
• New setup option under orders. 'Automatially update buy price' : will update buy price on accessory stocked items on receive order to received price.
• Cancel customer invoice; if invoice in question has unused deposit then open up view deposit window to allow refunding of deposit at time parts on order are cancelled.

• Bugfix with print preview introduced in last release. The preview was distorted and skewed. The actual print worked fine still.  Now fixed
• Backup : memorize backup settings. Make options more understandable. Hide options that are confusing unnecessary (ability to backup program files, and ability to disable backup of schema).

• Create backup file changes
• New option : only backup critical data. Idea is to make backups faster/smaller. If selected the following information is not backed up.
• All catalogue information and images (rationale: you can always reinstall them)
• Email attachments older than 2 months (rationale: attachments are just report .pdfs anyway. You can always rerun the report.)
• Default backup program files to off. Not necessary. Makes backup faster/smaller
• Improved performance of backup slightly by optimising backup creation code for performance and for making backup file slightly smaller by writing space efficient representations of database information where possible.
• Improved memory efficiency of backup. Previously, trying to backup big data on computer with little memory would cause c9 to crash because c9 would want to store entire database table in memory before saving it to disk.  Now setup so backup streams from database to backup file in such a way that large amounts of memory are not required.
• Catalogues : tools in utilities to allow you to manually manipulate catalogues.  Delete units/fiche, change unit image, fiche category etc.
• Catalogues: fixed problems with Yamaha import.

Requires database changes; upgrade will force you to log all terminals out before proceeding

• Added ability to import Kawasaki catalogues from Kawasaki's dealer website
• Point of sale : ability to set line item discounts.  Normal discount function still works, but will only apply on invoice items which do not have a individual line item discount %.  So line item discounts effectively override the discount given at end of invoice
• Point of sale : ability to discount parts sold to units and workshop jobs; so discount offered appears against profit for the spares side of the business.  Also ability to apply cost/margin based discounting when selling spares to sales/workshop department
• New spares report : sales.  Shows per part buy/sell figure and inventory. Designed mainly for Harley reporting requirements.
• Tweak / Bug Fixes
• Do not allow user to key in discount amount that exceeds value of parts supplied.
• F12 pickup order.  System would default discount settings to default settings for the account, not the settings used on the original invoice
• Calculating discount for per item profit reporting; could be out by  margin of 1 or 2 cents for a given part. System was supposed to calculate to accurate of 4 decimal places, but under some circumstances, when discount is applied on multiple parts and the discount rounds down to nearest 0.05/0.10,  it would miscalculate margin by a portion of the rounding down for 2nd and subsequent parts on invoice. Now fixed
• Sell units. Sell spares to a new unit then cancel add, or delete add. When go into spares again, the spares on the deleted/unadded unit are still there.  Fixed: system now prunes spares list after changing units on the invoice
• Spares A4 invoice : incorrectly printing print/discount header when no discount is ever printed
• Spares a4 invoice : print discount to be offered on parts on order when eventually invoiced when the invoice does not have any supplied items on it already to offer a discount.
• Sync to MYOB : would report error under some circumstances and state that sync did not work.  Message is incorrect; sync indeed does work and condition that caused the 'error' to appear is normal behaviour (skip supplier). Modified c9 to suppress reporting this message.

Database changes. C9 will force you to log all terminals out during upgrade

• Set web link/text.  Would crash trying to import jpg files. Now fixed
• Import parts catalogue.  Currently supported: Honda, KTM and Yamaha (Yamaha not tested)
• Print spares credit note:  redesign to mirror new spares invoice proforma : with ability to fold into a window envelope.
• Print business name on spares invoice: increase size of field on print page so long business names print fully
• Workshop : option to sort by job status
• Browse workshop : disable options which are designed for looking at active jobs only and result in poor database performance when considering historical jobs
• UI improvements to managing website content; make it a bit easier to enter in data.
• Print Job card. Print both Plain Job No and barcoded Job No

Following is a preview of new functionality to be released in c9 in the coming versions.  Possibly before Christmas, definitely by new year.

C9 will soon include the ability to import electronic catalogues.  From within c9, browse catalogues fast and easy, and sell parts straight off the catalogue.

Catalogues are imported, similar to importing price files.  Imported catalogues are also available for publishing on the website.

Example screen shot: Browsing/Finding Units by type/year/model/franchise

Example screen shot: Viewing Catalogues

Release requires database changes and will force you to log all terminals out.

• Spares invoice. If invoice is credit, i.e. prior invoice too too much deposit  which is now being refunded, invoice processing was in correct.  Key functional issues fixed:
• system inappropriately demanding no cash permissions for clerk key to proceed
• System not asking for method of payment for cash return
• System not reporting cash till takings at end of day correctly (because of point directly above)
• Website management. Bugfix with resizing JPG images. Recent changes to fix GIF images broke JPG.  Hopefully now all are fixed.